Releases/Firefox 10.0b4/BuildNotes
Contents
- 1 Notes About Releasing
- 2 Bugs hit
- 3 Build Engineers
- 4 Signed-off Revision(s)
- 5 L10N changesets
- 6 Tags
- 7 Build data
- 8 Notes
- 8.1 Build 1
- 8.1.1 Preparing to start Automation
- 8.1.2 E-mail Metrics
- 8.1.3 Tag
- 8.1.4 Bouncer Submitter
- 8.1.5 Source
- 8.1.6 Start autosign
- 8.1.7 Build
- 8.1.8 Unittests / Talos
- 8.1.9 XULRunner
- 8.1.10 Android Signing
- 8.1.11 L10N verify
- 8.1.12 Updates
- 8.1.13 Reset reserved slaves
- 8.1.14 Run backupsnip
- 8.1.15 Check permissions / AV scan
- 8.1.16 Push files to internal mirrors
- 8.1.17 Final verification
- 8.1.18 Push to beta
- 8.1.19 Push index file to mirrors
- 8.1.20 Push to external mirrors
- 8.1.21 Publish Fennec to the Android Market
- 8.1.22 Push XULRunner to Mirrors
- 8.1.23 Update XULRunner wiki page
- 8.1.24 Push to Release Channel
- 8.1.25 Update symlinks
- 8.1.26 Update browser choice website
- 8.1 Build 1
Notes About Releasing
Please update the Notes Template and the Release:Primer for future releases (bug fixes, changes to automation) as needed
Bugs hit
Enter any bugs pre-existing or newly discovered and filed during the release:
- bug - description
Build Engineers
jhford - Tracking bug: bug 712151
Signed-off Revision(s)
Build 1: a1a53d18a8bd
L10N changesets
Instructions on how to get them
- Firefox: fx10_beta_b4
- Fennec: fennec_beta_b4
Tags
Build # | Branch, Tags | Changeset |
MOBILE100_2012011108_RELBRANCH, FENNEC_10_0b4_RELEASE, FENNEC_10_0b4_BUILD1 | 69368d1fa5bf | |
GECKO100_2012011108_RELBRANCH, FIREFOX_10_0b4_RELEASE, FIREFOX_10_0b4_BUILD1 | 9938fa805155 |
Build data
Firefox
Build # | Type | Build ID | Build machine | Time to build |
1 | Linux | 20120111092507 | mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave18 | 1 hrs, 1 mins, 17 secs |
Linux64 | moz2-linux64-slave02 | 2 hrs, 39 mins, 30 secs | ||
Mac | moz2-darwin10-slave26 | 3 hrs, 36 mins, 6 secs | ||
Windows | mw32-ix-slave26 | 3 hrs, 9 mins, 25 secs |
Fennec
Build # | Type | Build ID | Build machine | Time to build |
1 | android | 20120111091839 | mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave02 | 1 hrs, 4 mins, 7 secs |
linux | mv-moz2-linux-ix-slave05 | 1 hrs, 48 mins, 25 secs | ||
macosx | bm-xserve16 | 1 hrs, 58 mins, 29 secs | ||
win32 | mw32-ix-slave03 | 1 hrs, 31 mins, 21 secs |
Notes
Build 1
Preparing to start Automation
- set 'anymaster', 'mozilla-beta', 'any-builder' on clobberer
- reserved 8 slaves
echo "10"> master/reserved_slaves_bm08-build1
- Updated l10n changesets for desktop, mobile
- Land automation configs (are you or buildduty going to reconfig? great, merge. otherwise double-land only your configs)
- Tag buildbot-configs, buildbotcustom, & tools with build & release tags
hg tag -f FIREFOX_10_0b4_RELEASE FIREFOX_10_0b4_BUILD1 FENNEC_10_0b4_RELEASE FENNEC_10_0b4_BUILD1
- cherry-picked patch needed for updates to work on buildbotcustom
- update and reconfigure the master
- dry run of release-sanity
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u jhford -pfirefox,fennec -V 10.0b4 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py --dryrun localhost:9001
- For effect
PYTHONPATH=. python ../tools/buildbot-helpers/release_sanity.py -u jhford -pfirefox,fennec -V 10.0b4 --branch mozilla-beta --build-number 1 -c release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py -c release-fennec-mozilla-beta.py localhost:9001
E-mail Metrics
Emailed
Firefox,firefox,firefox,10.0b4,10.0 Fennec,firefox-mobile,fennec,10.0b4,10.0
Tag
no problems
Bouncer Submitter
no problems
Source
no problems
Start autosign
NOTE: use new signcode keys from d:/2011-keys
PRODUCT=firefox VERSION=10.0b4 BUILD=1 TAG=FIREFOX_10_0b4_RELEASE REPO='releases/mozilla-beta' EMAIL=release@mozilla.com KEYDIR=d:/2011-keys RELCONFIG=mozilla/release-firefox-mozilla-beta.py cd ${HOME}/hg-tools/ # if it exists, otherwise create a fresh clone hg pull && hg up -r ${TAG} mkdir -p ~/signing-work/${PRODUCT}-${VERSION}/lib/python cd ~/signing-work/${PRODUCT}-${VERSION} cp ~/hg-tools/release/signing/* . rsync -av ~/hg-tools/lib/python/ ./lib/python/ make autosign PRODUCT=${PRODUCT} VERSION=${VERSION} BUILD=${BUILD} REPO=${REPO} \ EMAIL=${EMAIL} KEYDIR=${KEYDIR} RELCONFIG=${RELCONFIG}
Build
Firefox
no problem
Firefox repacks
no problems
Fennec
Android
no problems
Desktop Builds
no problems
Mobile Desktop repacks
no problems
Unittests / Talos
XULRunner
Source
no problems
Build
no problems
Signing
NOTE: use new signcode keys from d:/2011-keys
Android Signing
Instructions in [MobileSigning https://intranet.mozilla.org/Build:MobileSigning]
NOTE: It can be started in a different Windows without having to wait for Firefox signing to finish.
no problems
Android Signature Verification
no problems
L10N verify
no problems, aside from new locale AS failing because there are no previous versions
Updates
Update verify
no problems, aside from new locale AS failing because there are no previous versions
Reset reserved slaves
[cltbld@buildbot-master08 ~]$ echo 0 > /builds/buildbot/build1/master/reserved_slaves_bm08-build1
Run backupsnip
bash-3.2$ ~/bin/backupsnip Firefox-10.0b4-build1
Check permissions / AV scan
Push files to internal mirrors
Final verification
Push to beta
~/bin/pushsnip Firefox-10.0b4-build1
Push index file to mirrors
Push to external mirrors
if this is a chemspill you will want to ping justdave (or other sysadmin) in #release-drivers and ask them to enable CDN
Publish Fennec to the Android Market
Push the files
no problems
Android Market
IMPORTANT - Make sure to follow instructions!
- download multi apk (e.g. multi/fennec-8.0b4.multi.eabi-arm.apk)
- visit https://market.android.com/publish
- choose "Firefox Beta" or "Firefox"
- select the "APK Files" tab and choose "Upload APK"
- choose the multi apk that you downloaded and hit "upload"
- NOTE: the progress bar does not seem to show progress (at least on Google Chrome)
- when it finishes uploading, verify VersionCode is build date
- hit "Save"
- choose the multi apk that you downloaded and hit "upload"
- activate new apk (You should see an Error message since both apk's are active)
- deactivate old apk (You should not see the Error message anymore)
- hit "Save"
- If this is a beta 1, go to "Product Details" tab -> Recent Changes, change the url to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/{VERSION}beta/releasenotes/
- and hit "Save"
Push XULRunner to Mirrors
Update XULRunner wiki page
Push to Release Channel
Update symlinks
Once we're signed off on the release channel.
Remove index.html files
If you created them earlier to hide the release.